At the end of a long day…

It’s just been one of those days, where with everything that was going on, I literally had to tell a user that his low screen resolution problem was pretty low on my priority scale. I also had to spend the day at the Corporate office kind of babysitting the phone system there, as it’s gone extremely flaky for some reason. Of course, this meant that a few of my other support projects had to wait; I might not even go to Buffalo Thursday like I intended. It’ll end up being Friday or Monday at the latest, as I’ll be on vacation Tuesday and Wednesday, and it needs to be done by Thursday of next week. Oh, well…

Actually, I realized a valuable lesson today. I arranged with my father where I would pick Chinese up for dinner on the way home. Now, I almost always hit this really good Chinese place at Louetta and Ella called Hunam Garden for Chinese takeaway or delivery. Anyway, when I was about ten minutes away, I called them up on my cell phone, and when they answered I told them I wanted to make a takeout order. The guy replied, “General Tso’s combination platter… anything else?” If they know my order even before I make it, then it’s definitely time that I start throwing in some variety.

I haven’t opened up my copy of Midway Arcade Treasures: Deluxe Edition yet, which may or may not be a good thing. Apparently not only am I hearing that none of the games from Midway Arcade Treasures 2 have music and the old bugs from those games still exist (including the inability to fight Smoke in Mortal Kombat II), it uses a piece of copy-protection software called Starforce which installs hidden device drivers into your system. *sigh* As before, what I’m about to say is my own opinion and not that of MK Online. That said… Midway, please. I love your games. However… you’re better than this. You need a much better QA department. The more games that get released with these glaring bugs (and this is the third or fourth time the Smoke bug has been seen), the worse the company’s reputation will get… and the less profit you’ll make. As a longtime Midway fan (even well before MK), I’m asking you to please take this into consideration. Like I said, you’re better than this.

All right, that said… I admit I am looking forward to two games coming out that are being published by Midway: Mortal Kombat: Armageddon and Unreal Tournament 2007. I’m also a longtime Unreal fan, as evidenced by the fact that my sterling silver moneyclip has the Unreal logo on it. :-) In fact, Unreal Tournament 2004 is my current favorite wind-down game… if I need to wind down and blow off steam, I load it and go to town on some bots. It doesn’t require careful thought or planning like Zero Hour does… just run in and blow apart things. :-)

Anyway, I’d better wrap this up, as I have a couple of things I need to check before heading off to bed and all that. Fun fun…